how do you make apple brandy?

Question

I want to learn to make apple brandy. Anyone have any tips, recipes, etc.?

Answer 1

Actual apple brandy is distilled hard cider. You can make hard cider all you want perfectly legally. The distillation is the illegal part (in most of the world).

In New Zealand and a few European countries, home distillation is not illegal, however. If you live there, here is the place with all the information you could possibly want:
http://homedistiller.org

It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Answer 2

Try purcahsing an inexpensive bottle of brandy, american or french, add about half a pound of dried apple slices cut into quarters or halfs, these will go through the neck of the bottle, find a dark,cool place and let steep for 2-3 weeks, it will be great by Xmas, then if you can use the apple bits for fruitcake or Xmas pudding, if your going to do this cut the piece into a smaller almost dice, the surface area will make the flavour more intese with the brandy.

I am a former chef and before they started importing the Dutch Appelvets we used to make our own.

Answer 3

Avery County North Carolina Bootleggers Receipe: Make traditional hard apple cider 6-12% alcohol, then freeze the hard apple cider. Once the water content of the hard apple cider is frozen (mountain term: jacking-off the alcohol from frozen water content) by shake the container upside down over a glass or jar and presto: Apple Brandy

Answer 4

Use apple cider vinegar and mix with your choice of brandy. Fill with carbonated water (Ginger ale may be substituted for carbonated water, if preferred) and shake well. Add a twist of lemon peel on top if you want to and it's ready. Then serve the drink with some ice cubes in a highball glass.

If not, you can just buy Calvados as it is a kind of apple brandy in the market.

Answer 5

Apple Brandy is a brandy distilled from apples, maintaining the fruit's sweet flavor.

Answer 6

Unless you're skilled at distilling, and already own a still, I don't advise meddling in that.
a) a still is a big investment to make

b) distilling alcohol, even for private consumption is a matter with touch legal specs

c) If you don't know how to proceed, the likelihood of getting a final product that is uninteresting, bad tasting, or even poisonous (methylic alcohol) is just too high to take the chance.

Answer 7

There are quite a few links to follow up from the page below...;

Answer 8

with apples and branyd i guess